Simple & Practical Program Implementation

Learn how the program can easily be implemented in your school or institution:

Sustainable Results Come from a Successful Implementation

When implementing a new reading intervention program, you want more than a stack of new manuals. You want results. You want to see struggling readers and English Language Learners make progress.

At Reading Horizons, we believe our work begins when our products leave our shelves. We want to work with you after your purchase to assure implementation is simple, sustainable, and successful. To meet this end, we offer a variety of training options:

Provide teachers with proven strategies

Reading Horizons program is effective because its methodology is effective. During a professional development training, teachers are provided with a complete overview of the method, as well as teaching tips for maximizing student success.

Provide teachers with effective tools

Reading Horizons professional development courses orient teachers to Reading Horizons products. Teachers learn how to use the interactive software and direct instruction materials in the classroom to maximize their results.

Ensure implementation is sustained

Teachers leave each professional development training course with a clear plan on how to effectively implement Reading Horizons in each of their classrooms. Reading Horizons also provides ongoing coaching and free customer support to help teachers sustain Reading Horizons, year after year.

Interactive Reading Software

The Reading Horizons Elevate software is the simplest, most time-effective way to get students high-quality, individualized reading instruction. Teachers simply have to:

Set up each student in the software (settings can be adjusted to cater to the needs of individual students)

Monitor student progress

Provide follow-up instruction for students that need additional help (as dictated by software assessment data)

Once each student is set up, the software provides individualized instruction that automatically assesses students after each lesson, chapter, and comprehension exercise and provides teachers with detailed information on each student’s specific strengths and weaknesses.

To adjust to busy class and student schedules, the online version of the software can be accessed by students from home for makeup work and to receive extra practice.

Teacher Manuals for Fast Lesson Planning

The short, engaging lesson plans ensure that instructional integrity is maintained and requires little preparation time. Each lesson takes between 20 to 30 minutes, with additional exercises and games that can be implemented as schedules allow.

These lessons can be used as the sole mode of instruction, but most teachers prefer to use the software as the primary mode of instruction with older students and use the assessment data to dictate direct instruction needs.

Simple Lesson Preparation

It’s not realistic to expect that teachers can devote several hours a day preparing and delivering reading instruction. The Reading Horizons Discovery short, engaging lesson plans help with implementation by providing all of the information teachers need to plan a robust lesson with little preparation time.

Scripted guides can be used to ensure that instructional integrity is maintained. By using the scripted guides, teachers can be confident they have taught each skill as explicitly and as succinctly as possible. This helps students quickly grasp each new concept.

Each lesson includes:

Skill Review: 5 minutes

Teacher Instruction: 15–20 minutes

Guided Practice: 5-10 minutes

Whole-Class Practice: 3-5 minutes

Individual Practice: as time allows

Reinforcement Activities: as time allows

Each lesson is designed to take approximately 20 to 30 minutes , with additional exercises and games that can be implemented as schedules allow. These concise lessons keep students engaged and make it easy to implement into busy class schedules.